On Wed, 2004-02-04 at 11:09, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote: > First off, my experience with software RAID (both 0 and 1) under Linux has > been excellent, although I've as yet suffered no failures. However, I > suggest forking over the cash for a 3Ware adapter, they're not that > expensive. I went all out and got a 12-drive card for $560, but they have > two- and four-drive cards that are darn cheap. And they are "real" hardware > RAID, with excellent performance and other RAID modes (5, 10, etc.) > available to boot. Plus, the kernel module is open-source and included > since God-knows-when in the mainstream kernels, so you need to do NOTHING > to make it work... it just works. > > What's not to love? What kind of monitoring do those support (syslog/snmp)? What has your experience been? (I know you haven't had any failures, but surely you have monitored _somthing_) :) Thanks, -- Jason Dixon, RHCE DixonGroup Consulting http://www.dixongroup.net
